I've got two nectarine trees, one next to the other, and I live in Danville, California. The trees have leaves that are very sick, with what looks like leaf curl, and the fruit is still small but now has a lot of white dots/areas.
Clearly, the trees are sick and need me to spray them after the leaves fall and again before spring. (I read that online)
My question is this: what should I do until fall? Should I now remove all the fruit, leaves, prune away the younger branches etc? Will that make it easier on the trees? There's no point in the trees investing all this energy in growing fruit that we won't eat.
